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Book Close to Colette

Download or read book Close to Colette written by Maurice Goudeket and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Colette's last thirty years written by her husband.

Book Pres de Colette

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  • Author : Colette
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Pres de Colette written by Colette and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Lives of Saint Colette

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  • Author : Sister Perrine De Baume
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-07-05
  • ISBN : 9781649590664
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Two Lives of Saint Colette written by Sister Perrine De Baume and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (1381-1447) was a French reformer of the Franciscan Order and the founder of seventeen convents. Though of humble origin, she attracted the support of powerful patrons and important Church officials. The two biographies translated here were authored by Pierre de Vaux, her confessor and mentor, and Perrine de Baume, a nun who for decades was Colette's companion and confidant. Both accounts offer fascinating portraits of the saint as a pious ascetic assailed by demons and performing miracles, as well as in her role as skillful administrator and caring mother of her nuns. This is the first English translation of two biographies in Middle French of the most important female figures of the Middle Ages.

Book Colette

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  • Author : Julia Kristeva
  • Publisher : European Perspectives
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780231128971
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Colette written by Julia Kristeva and published by European Perspectives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius, Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight.

Book The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette

Download or read book The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette written by Helen Southworth and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might the author of Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own have in common with the author of the Claudine series and The Pure and the Impure? Resisting long-held interpretations that Colette and Virginia Woolf had little in common, Southworth shows here the links between the two famous writers, both real and imagined. Often cast in their diametrically opposed roles of elitist bluestocking and risque music hall performer, critics have overlooked the many ways in which the lives and works of Woolf and Colette intersect. This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the biographical, stylistic, and thematic ties that link the lives and works of Britain's and France's first ladies of letters of the early twentieth century. Situating the two writers within an international network of artists and literati, including Jacques-Emile Blanche, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge. Winnie de Polignac, Gisele Freund, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis, this study complicates conceptions of the differences--national, sexual, cultural, and intellectual--which have kept these two women apart by placing these same differences at its center. Southworth develops work already undertaken on Woolf's contacts with France and adds to the body of comparative work on Woolf and her contemporaries. This study also highlights as yet unexplored connections between Colette and her British and American peers. Southworth's book makes a significant contribution to gay and lesbian studies and the study of modernist culture. It also demonstrates the potential of social network theory for literary studies.

Book Colette s Republic

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  • Author : Patricia A. Tilburg
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781845455712
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Colette s Republic written by Patricia A. Tilburg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own fantastical ways of seeing by embracing observation, corporeal dynamism, and imaginative introspection. How these republican ideals and the new national education system of the 1870s and 80s - the structure meant to impart these ideals - shaped belle époque popular culture is the focus of this book. The author reassesses the meaning of secularization and offers a cultural history of this period by way of an interrogation of several fraught episodes which, although seemingly disconnected, shared an attachment to the potent moral and aesthetic directives of French republicanism: a village's battle to secularize its schools, a scandalous novel, a vaudeville hit featuring a nude celebrity, and a craze for female boxing. Beginning with the writer and performer Colette (1873-1954) as a point of entry, this re-evaluation of belle époque popular culture probes the startling connections between republican values of labor and physical health on the one hand, and the cultural innovations of the decades preceding World War I on the other.

Book Colette s Lost Pet

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  • Author : Isabelle Arsenault
  • Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2017-05-23
  • ISBN : 0553536613
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book Colette s Lost Pet written by Isabelle Arsenault and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colette can't find something to talk about with the new kids in the neighborhood...so she invents a pet! Her fib quickly escalates, and suddenly her parakeet is a larger-than-life world-traveler named Marie Antoinette. Have her new friends figured out her secret? What will they do? This charming story both clearly identifies the struggle of navigating a different experience, and demonstrates to kids a lovely and welcoming way to treat someone new in their community.

Book Colette

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  • Author : Nicole Ward Jouve
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780253301024
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Colette written by Nicole Ward Jouve and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Colette's novels have been thought sentimental and she herself has earned a certain notoriety as a decadent sensualist, Nicole Ward Jouve argues that we need to look closely at Colette's work again, and with the hindsight of feminist theory, to rediscover that inimitable talent for the inscription of sensual and familial pleasure.

Book Secrets of the Flesh

Download or read book Secrets of the Flesh written by Judith Thurman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling biography of the French literary superstar Colette, who is also the subject of a major motion picture. “A fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long tumultuous life and the great body of her work scrupulously considered and presented with style.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy—a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy’s sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon’s. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her seventies she contributed to the pro-Nazi press during the Occupation, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew, had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, this incomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day. Judith Thurman, author of the National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen, portrays Colette as a thoroughly modern woman: frank in her desires, fierce in her passions, forever reinventing herself. Rich with delicious gossip and intimate revelations, shimmering with grace and intelligence, Secrets of the Flesh is one of the great biographies of our time. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The Village Voice and Newsday “[Colette] has been the subject of . . . a half-dozen significant biographies over the past thirty years. Yet this one by Judith Thurman will be hard to top. . . . Its prose is smoothly urbane, at times aphoristic, always captivating.”—The Washington Post Book World “It will stand as literature in its own right.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “[An] essential biography by a stylish writer of great sympathetic understanding and intellectual authority.”—Philip Roth

Book Ch  ri

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  • Author : Colette
  • Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
  • Release : 2024-07-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book Ch ri written by Colette and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans les méandres envoûtants de l'amour et de la société parisienne du début du XXe siècle, "Chéri" de Colette vous transporte dans un tourbillon de passion, de désir et d'émotion. Le roman dépeint l'histoire tumultueuse d'une liaison amoureuse entre Léa, une célèbre courtisane parisienne, et Chéri, un jeune homme séduisant et insouciant. Alors que leur relation se développe au fil des saisons, Colette explore les complexités de l'amour, du désir et de l'attachement, révélant les nuances subtiles des émotions humaines. Les lecteurs seront captivés par la prose sensuelle de Colette alors qu'elle dépeint les plaisirs et les peines de l'amour avec une grâce et une subtilité éblouissantes. Son écriture captivante transporte les lecteurs dans les salons élégants de Paris et leur permet de ressentir chaque frisson de passion et chaque soupir de désespoir. Points clés : Une exploration fascinante de l'amour et du désir dans le contexte de la haute société parisienne du début du XXe siècle. Des personnages riches et complexes qui captivent l'imagination et éveillent les émotions, offrant une réflexion profonde sur la nature humaine. Une prose élégante et évocatrice qui transporte les lecteurs dans un monde de luxe, de beauté et d'émotion. Une histoire d'amour intemporelle qui transcende les époques et continue de captiver les lecteurs aujourd'hui. Une exploration subtile des dynamiques de pouvoir et des conventions sociales qui régissent la vie dans la haute société parisienne. Ce qui distingue vraiment "Chéri", c'est sa capacité à capturer la complexité de l'amour et du désir avec une beauté et une grâce incomparables. Les lecteurs seront transportés par l'écriture envoûtante de Colette et par la manière dont elle explore les émotions humaines les plus profondes avec une sensibilité exquise. Pour ceux qui recherchent une histoire d'amour élégante et émouvante, "Chéri" est un choix parfait qui les transportera dans un monde de passion et de romance.

Book Secrets of the Flesh

Download or read book Secrets of the Flesh written by Judith Thurman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzling reputation. Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her seventies she flirted with the Nazi occupiers of Paris, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew, had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, this incomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day. Judith Thurman, author of the National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen, portrays Colette as a thoroughly modern woman: frank in her desires, fierce in her passions, forever reinventing herself. Rich with delicious gossip and intimate revelations, shimmering with grace and intelligence, Secrets of the Flesh is one of the great biographies of our time. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.

Book Colette

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  • Author : Colloque Universitaire International Autour de Colette. 1986, Saint-Tropez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Colette written by Colloque Universitaire International Autour de Colette. 1986, Saint-Tropez and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

Book The Story of Colette

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  • Author : Jeanne Schultz
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-05-20
  • ISBN : 9781357863241
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Story of Colette written by Jeanne Schultz and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Story of Colette

Download or read book The Story of Colette written by Jeanne Schultz and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book The Story of Colette

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  • Author : Jeanne Schultz
  • Publisher : Trieste Publishing
  • Release : 2017-09-14
  • ISBN : 9780649713455
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The Story of Colette written by Jeanne Schultz and published by Trieste Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.